The science behind why smoke seems to follow you around a campfire:
[...] "What ends up happening is the fire is heating the air and that creates buoyancy, which is the scientific term for hot air rises," research scientist Kerry Anderson told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview on Saturday.
He said because hot air is less dense, it lifts and creates a low-pressure zone that draws surrounding air into the fire in order to fill that area.
When someone stands next to a fire, they essentially create a barrier, or shadow, that blocks the surrounding air from being drawn in, creating another low-pressure zone, Anderson explained.
"And what ends up happening is the hot air that's rising ends up being brought into this vacuum, so it gets pulled toward you," he said. "And with the head at the top of your body, the smoke is drawn into your eyes."
One of my most pressing issues, to be sure!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @03:12PM (2 children)
So why does cigarette smoke always move towards the non-smoker?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @07:08PM
To stop you homos from doing that fake-cough bullshit every time you're near a smoker. It's sorta like the vegan that can't shut the fuck up about how they eat vegan.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday May 24 2022, @01:05AM
Probably the same reason they failed to identify with their oversimplified answer.
They explained why smoke will tend to follow *anyone* around a fire - but not why it prefers *you*.
E.g. I can sit around a campfire with a half-dozen other people, and the smoke tends to follow *me* - even if everyone else is clumped together at the opposite side. According to their explanation the windbreak created by the clump of people should be the dominant "draw" for the smoke - but nope, it follows me around the fire all night, regardless of how everyone else is arranged.
I swear, I should just get some cool goggles and rent out my services as a smoke magnet at parties. Not quite as dignified as software development, but being able to get smashed on the clock would partially make up for that.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Barenflimski on Monday May 23 2022, @03:26PM
The same thing happens when you fart and try to walk away. You create a low pressure zone and the fart travels with you. The next thing that happens is the people around you create low pressure zones in their wake when they walk away from you. This tends to spread the fart more than if everyone just stood still and gagged as this creates high and low pressure zones in which the 'wind' fills the voids.
In technical terms, they call this, "clearing a room."
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @03:44PM (8 children)
See subject & "there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image" per Revelation 16:2 & guess where THAT come from?
Yup, you guessed RIGHT - Wuhan "gain of function" to make it more communicable + severe https://newspunch.com/exposed-wuhan-lab-carried-out-gain-of-function-research-on-monkeypox/ [newspunch.com]
* I haven't been wrong about COVID per your OWN votes on my posts on that either per https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=46034&page=1&cid=1197563#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] where I let "Dalek" EXTERMINATE himself (funny he's not showing up anymore FAKE NAME & ALL like scumbags ALWAYS do...)
APK
P.S.=> Consider this a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT fools... apk
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @03:51PM (6 children)
Before you can crow
how you told us so
you will need more than a few
deaths to point to,
Get back to us when the recent deaths from Monkeypox exceed - say - 100K.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @04:08PM (2 children)
Reminder set for June 22, 2022.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by maxwell demon on Monday May 23 2022, @04:17PM
Won't this story be archived by then?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @04:59PM
Shouldn't you set it for 6/6/2022? (since 2 + 0 + 2 + 2 = 6)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @04:21PM (2 children)
See subject & cut your bullshit FAKENAME now hiding under AC (typical punk you are) - FACT: the passage I quoted from scripture doesn't state it KILLS you, only that it's harmful (grievous/noisome) & NEITHER did I regarding monkeypox!
Cut the CRAP of trying to put words in my mouth I never stated - typical "leftist" weirdo BULLSHIT from you & nothing more as per YOUR kind's usual.
HOWEVER: Given that the "good ole' boys" in PHARMAKEIA (sorcery, again per Revelation scripture by John) PROBABLY tried to make it so (hence what "gain of function" means) per the WUHAN link I established...
* Man, I just LOVE total DOLTS like you - you have this tendency to MAKE ME LOOK GOOD & yourself (+ those LIKE you as well) well, "not so good" for you...
UNDEREDUCATED fuckos like you make me laugh - see above & read the scriptural passage from REVELATION first before you shoot your cocksucker off @ me, dumbo.
(Time will tell & as per usual in my favor? I know I'll be correct, as usual... UNLIKE "you & yours", weasels that hide behind AC posts as usual vs. me (scumbag punks you are))
APK
P.S.=> So keep "trusting your 'science'" that DOESN'T WORK & make you even sicker per "The CURE is WORSE than the disease" in which you ALL modded ME up to "the max" https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45858&page=1&cid=1194330#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] WHERE YOU ALL "Patted me on the back" with that upmod & yes, time DID tell I was 100% correct ... apk
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @04:51PM
Made you say underwear! Ha. Ha.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 24 2022, @02:22AM
apk... I do read your posts, and I gratefully acknowledge the time you spent to post. I only wish others would understand what you are trying to say. You must feel like a lone engineer in the midst of MBAs.
I know how I cower to them, going along with things I know ain't right just to keep the peace of the day and keep my job.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Monday May 23 2022, @09:33PM
Bad news for Trump voters then?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hman on Monday May 23 2022, @05:54PM (3 children)
Respecting the old traditions: I didn't read TFA so maybe they already said that...
THIS SHOULD GET AN IGNOBEL.
There are certainly fluid dynamic applications. And it makes you (well... me) laugh, and then go nowwaitaminutethisisinteresting...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday May 23 2022, @08:09PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 23 2022, @08:10PM (1 child)
Experiment: Get a group together to go camping. Ensure that there are one or two vacuous fools in the crowd, but no more than that. Ensure the vacuous fools sit together, if more than one. You sit across the fire from them. You probably won't be afflicted with smoke in your eyes all night long. No cheating! Don't test the wind first!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @08:29PM
if you are sitting with other campers by a fire and you can't tell who the vacuous fool is...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2022, @08:52PM
I've experienced intervals, where, when smoking a cigarette, the smoke always seemed to go straight for my face, no matter where I was holding the cigarette. Whether it was the left hand, the right hand, close to me, or far away, the smoke from the cig would always travel straight to my face and was quite annoying.
I always wrote it off as magnetism. I think I may have been slightly statically charged with electricity, perhaps my hair, specifically, and the smoke was attracted to it.
The campfire and air currents thing makes a certain amount of sense; but, I still think magnetism from static electricity might play a role too...